Open d877e7cd-0a43-4c06-ae55-7f08ac375d6b opened 4 years ago
A gzip file can have uncompressed data written to it, writing compressed data to the underlying file. It can also have uncompressed data read from it, reading compressed data from the underlying file.
However, it does not support reading compressed data from an underlying uncompressed file, nor writing compressed data to an underlying uncompressed file.
This makes it impossible to, for example, obtain an arbitrary file-like object and produce another file-like object which transparently compresses data read from the first.
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GitHub fields: ```python assignee = None closed_at = None created_at =
labels = ['3.8', 'type-feature', 'library']
title = 'gzip module only supports half of possible read/write scenarios'
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